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Begum
Fazilatunnessa Mujib
Wife of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Born at Tungipara, Gopalganj, August 8,1930
Married to Bangabandhu
at a very young age, Begum Mujib was a witness from the
closest to the many events the Father of the Nation vent
through in his striving for a sovereign md free Bangladesh.
(She was as a constant source of strength to him, what came
in the relisation that for most of his political career
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was in incarceration at
the hands of successive Pakistain regimes). Begum Mujib's
task, apart from helping Bangabandhu maintain his struggle
against the political domination of what was then West Pakistan,
was to act as the base upon which her family operated. The
children, all of them young required her presence at every
stage. During the War of Liberation in 1971, with the country
at war and Bangabandhu in Pakistani prison, Begum Mujib
never lost faith in destiny, her family's as well as the
country's. Begum Fazilatunnessa Mujib was endowed with rare
qualities of head and heart, indomitable spirit and undaunted
courage. She was a great source of inspiration for Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
She was assassinated
in the pre-dawn hours of August 15, 1975, moments after
Bangabandu fell to the foul conspiracy of men determined
to take Bangladesh away from its part of democracy and secularism.
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